I'm happy to announce the release of Apache Subversion 1.7.0-rc3. Please choose the mirror closest to you by visiting:
http://subversion.apache.org/download/#pre-releases (Note: It may take up to 24 hours for all mirrors to sync the release.) The SHA1 checksums are: 0a1e80426720233bfdb8aaab1d97e3e8bd3ae82c subversion-1.7.0-rc3.zip 37c44ac69b132749deece46f853fdbfbe4d8b417 subversion-1.7.0-rc3.tar.bz2 6c62df9f66a9eb71df055ad8794e887716cd04a6 subversion-1.7.0-rc3.tar.gz PGP Signatures are available at: http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc3.tar.bz2.asc http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc3.tar.gz.asc http://www.apache.org/dist/subversion/subversion-1.7.0-rc3.zip.asc For this release, the following people have provided PGP signatures: C. Michael Pilato [1024D/1706FD6E] with fingerprint: 20BF 14DC F02F 2730 7EA4 C7BB A241 06A9 1706 FD6E Paul T. Burba [1024D/53FCDC55] with fingerprint: E630 CF54 792C F913 B13C 32C5 D916 8930 53FC DC55 Julian Foad [1024D/353E25BC] with fingerprint: 6604 5A4B 43BC F994 7777 5728 351F 33E4 353E 25BC Hyrum K. Wright [1024D/4E24517C] with fingerprint: 3324 80DA 0F8C A37D AEE6 D084 0B03 AE6E 4E24 517C Philip Martin [2048R/ED1A599C] with fingerprint: A844 790F B574 3606 EE95 9207 76D7 88E1 ED1A 599C Johan Corveleyn [4096R/010C8AAD] with fingerprint: 8AA2 C10E EAAD 44F9 6972 7AEA B59C E6D6 010C 8AAD Mark Phippard [1024D/035A96A9] with fingerprint: D315 89DB E1C1 E9BA D218 39FD 265D F8A0 035A 96A9 This is a release candidate for what will eventually become Apache Subversion 1.7.0. It is thought to be free of blocking issues, and if none are found will become the final release. For this reason, we encourage thorough testing in as many environments as possible. This release candidate continues the four-week "soak" period to allow for further testing, and barring show-stopping bugs, the final 1.7.0 release can be expected on or near Sept. 28. Even though we feel that this release is ready for widespread testing by the community, some things may still change before the final release. Of particular note, please remember than persistent data, such as the working copy or repository formats may change before the final release, and there may not be an upgrade path from the pre-releases to the final. As a note to operating system distro packagers: while we wish to have this release candidate widely tested, we do not feel that it is ready for packaging and providing to end-users through a distro package system. Packaging a release candidate poses many problems, the biggest being that our policy lets us break compatibility between the release candidate and the final release, if we find something serious enough. Having many users depending on a release candidate through their distro would cause no end of pain and frustration that we do not want to have to deal with. However, if your distro has a branch that is clearly labeled as containing experimental and often broken software, and explicitly destined to consenting developers and integrators only, then we're okay with packaging the release candidate there. Just don't let it near the end users please. Release notes for the 1.7.x release series may be found at: http://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.7.html You can find the list of changes between 1.7.0-rc3 and earlier versions at: http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/tags/1.7.0-rc3/CHANGES Questions, comments, and bug reports to us...@subversion.apache.org. Thanks, - The Subversion Team